CATDOLL : CATDOLL: How come turbot causes cancer?

I always thought that turbot was flounder, but after checking, I found out that there are more than 600 species of flounder, and turbot is just one of them. Turbot is one of the precious low-temperature economic fish species. As the main dry oak fish species farmed in northern my country, it is a relatively successful example of marine fish introduction in my country.

Many years ago, some people said that turbot causes cancer. Sometimes when I was eating in a restaurant and wanted to order a turbot dish, there would always be people saying that turbot was not edible. Therefore, I have rarely eaten turbot in recent years, but its deliciousness is still unforgettable.

After checking some information, I found that the claim that eating turbot can cause cancer originated in Australia. In 2004, Australia detected nitrofurans in some imported fish and shrimp products (including turbot), and then rumors spread that this substance can cause cancer. Later, after a scientific evaluation by the Australian Food Standards Administration, it was found that this substance has no obvious effect on the human body. The Australian Food Standards Administration stated: "There is no evidence that nitrofurans can cause cancer in humans! There is no health and safety risk!"

However, this rumor has spread to many countries, including my country. The consumption of turbot by consumers has shown a significant downward trend, and this rumor is deeply rooted in people's minds. Ordinary people would rather believe it than not. Of course, some media have debunked the rumor, but people are still skeptical.

In 2015, an incident caused a complete panic among people about turbot. Some people who were skeptical at first finally believed that turbot was no longer safe to eat. In that year, a food and drug environmental protection team in a certain district of Jinan found a turbot that contained nitrofuran metabolites, which was equivalent to the content detected in Australia in 2004. The case officers disclosed it to the media and talked about the information that turbot can cause cancer and fetal malformation. With shocking headlines, it was widely circulated in various media. Soon, more and more people believed that it was unsafe to eat turbot.

After this incident, turbot was labeled as carcinogenic, and the entire turbot industry was basically on the verge of collapse. Farmers suffered huge economic losses. Although CCTV refuted the rumor in 2016, it still had a huge impact on the turbot industry.

Of course, during the breeding process, turbot, like other farmed products, is fed with a lot of drugs, some of which are permitted and some are prohibited, which results in harmful drug residues in some farmed products exceeding the standard. Therefore, turbot itself is not toxic, but some unscrupulous farmers use excessive and prohibited drugs, which makes some turbot really affect human health.

That's not the case. I hate reporters! They deliberately distort and exaggerate the facts!

There is indeed a problem with the use of drugs for turbot. The reason you haven’t heard about it is because the people who use it don’t know that it is a banned drug!

The main drugs in question are furacilin and malachite green.

Furazolidone is also used in the medicines of people who are allergic to cancer. I still don't know why it can cause cancer, but the harm of malachite green to the human body is certain. However, this medicine is only used by a few people, and furazolidone is used as the most common medicine, just like people use Band-Aids, it is used more frequently, it is mainly used to protect the mucous membrane of fish, and no one has ever thought that it can cause cancer.

Other drugs such as ciprofloxacin and enrofloxacin were rarely used in the past, but later on, hatchery factories used more drugs in the fry stage. As their immunity was low, fish farmers gradually started to use Duanji. The key is the industry standards and health supervision system. It is not entirely the responsibility of the farmers!

I think there must be a person who likes to eat turbot very much, so he eats it often. Then he went to the hospital for a check-up and found out that he had cancer, and then he blamed it on eating too much turbot.

Our department pointed out that the turbot that Duan loved the most can no longer be eaten. The "Sudan Red Duck Egg" incident is still hot, and the "toxic turbot" is on the table again. On the 17th, the Shanghai Food and Drug Administration issued a serious consumer warning, saying that all 30 turbot samples sampled recently contained banned fishery drugs. Subsequently, the State Food and Drug Administration issued an emergency notice with a level of "extremely urgent".

We don’t even know how many of the foods we eat every day are problematic, there’s nothing we can do about it.

Such rumors were spread because some self-media were blindly pursuing traffic.